...manage a comprehensive platform, alibaba also directly or through its acquisition of companies, including China nets and DaTong, the domestic traders to provide diversified business management software and Internet infrastructure services and export related services, and business management professionals and e-commerce specialist training services. Alibaba also has Vendio and Auctiva, the two companies are leading the third party e-commerce solutions suppliers, main service online merchants. Alibaba in the greater China region, India, Japan, Korea, Europe and the United States has more than 70 offices. They are the very important business of China Product Alibaba they have 13 products for E-commerce, TaoBao . Taobao May 10, was founded in 2003, founded by alibaba group. Taobao Business across C2C (Consumer to Consumer), B2C (...
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...several e-commerce sites in different parts of the world. By using F5® BIG-IP® Global Traffic Manager™ (GTM) and F5 BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM), Alibaba was able to consistently provide high-quality and secure services to its 24/7 worldwide customer base. Business Challenge Founded in 1999, Alibaba Group has grown to include the core businesses described below. • Alibaba.com, the group’s flagship company and the world’s leading B2B e-commerce company, serves small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in China and around the world. It has more than 40 million registered users from more than 240 countries and regions. The company has offices in more than 40 cities across Greater China, as well as in Europe and the United States. • Taobao is China’s largest consumer e-commerce company. It incorporates Alimama, China’s largest online advertising exchange platform. With a registered user base of nearly 100 million, its transaction volume was RMB 99.96 billion (US $14.6 billion) in 2008, up 131 percent from 2007. • Alipay is China’s leading online payment service with more than 150 million registered users. • Yahoo! Koubei is China’s leading classified listing website. It provides more than 20 million registered users with local information across 2,000 cities in China. • Alisoft is the group’s internet-based business management software company. It targets SMEs in China and has...
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...国际管理 International Management 刘意蒙（Angela）2010202124 郑在宪（Daniel）2012290112 Marc-Philip Moeller 2014591083 联系：18610732267 2639015607@qq.com 国际管理 Case Analysis of Alibaba.com and DHGate.com 1. Browse and compare the business models of Alibaba.com and DHGate.com After comparing Alibaba.com and DHGate.com, our group found out that these two websites share some similarities as well as have some distinctive differences. [Similarities] Both Alibaba.com and DHGate.com are B2B e-commerce websites, which provide a third party e-commerce transaction platform for sellers to source business opportunities and make deals. Both sites target small and medium enterprises as their customers, aiming to help them sell their products or buy products from other enterprises far way more easily. In order to create a platform that benefits small and medium enterprises, both sites provide free services such as posting information about the product, providing information about the supply and demand of a specific market, and supporting those enterprises to make product display. [Differences] (1) Value propositions are different. Alibaba.com focuses on publishing deal information online and transactions are mainly made off-line. In other words, a small or medium enterprise publishes information about its products and its contact information on Alibaba.com and when other enterprises are interested in its products, they will contact this company and make transactions off-line on their own...
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...October 11 October 11 Case 1: Taobao vs. eBay China E-Business Professor Qiu Ivy Yuwen Cai Case 1: Taobao vs. eBay China E-Business Professor Qiu Ivy Yuwen Cai 08 Fall 08 Fall Ivy Yuwen Cai E-Business Professor Qiu Case 1 Taobao vs. eBay China Due Date: October 11, 2011 A Lesson of “Doing Business in China” eBay had failed to recognize that the Chinese market and its business environment are very different in comparison to the United States. In any country, having local knowledge of your market is good; having local leadership on the ground is better. However, eBay assigns its high management positions to people who are not from Mainland China, who lack understanding of the local market. The fact that eBay had a strong brand in the United States didn’t mean it would be a strong brand in China. Security and Payment One of the most important factors, which let customers make purchase decisions, is security, and security issues are mostly related to payment process. When competing in payment services, Jack Ma and his team use their Chinese “guanxi” with key government officials and leaders in the Chinese banking industry to secure and process payment transactions. eBay has introduced its traditional payment method, Paypal, while Taobao has introduced a similar one, Alipay. Before 2007, the difference between Paypal and Alipay is the process of payment. Through Paypal, buyers pay directly to sellers, without any third party involvement...
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...COMPANY NOTE Initiating Coverage 27 October 2014 CHN | Technology | Internet BUY Price target $118.00 Price $95.76 The Powerful E-Commerce Ecosystem Connecting Half of China; Initiate at Buy Key Takeaway China's changing Internet user demographics and mobile development support our favorable view on e-Commerce for the next decade. Alibaba is the largest Chinese ecommerce player, with 80%+ GMV market share, but is only selling to less than 25% of the population now. We estimate well over half of Chinese population will be shopping on Alibaba’s platforms in 10 years. Initiate with Buy; PT USD118. Changing demographics & mobile support ecommerce in the next decade. As discussed in our sector note, "A Taste of Domestic Consumption: The Unleashing of China's E-Commerce Power" published on Sept 19, 2014, China’s e-Commerce growth for the next decade benefit from: 1) changing Internet user demographics towards 30+ year old age groups; 2) accelerating structural shift to online from traditional retail; 3) Chinese government’s massive support for urbanization and domestic consumption; 4) proliferation of affordable smart devices; 5) improving wireless and transport infrastructures in lower tier and rural markets, and 6) rising consumer demand for better quality, design & fashion, authenticity and timely delivery. Growth driven by mix shift towards Tmall, and improving mobile monetization. We expect Alibaba, as the largest e-Commerce player, to sell to...
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...Management Information Systems Homework: Alibaba’s Taobao Angela Mae Jean Sy 12210690780 November 17, 2012 1. What was Alibaba’s motivation for diversifying into the consumer business with the launch of Taobao? Does this make sense? Jack Ma was alarmed at eBay’s entry into the online selling market, fearing that it would soon encroach on Alibaba’s existing B2B success. Ma knew that once eBay had a firm hold on their individual consumers and sellers, it would be easy for them to transition into a bigger, SME-targeted type of e-commerce. Given eBay’s worldwide dominance, Ma’s fears were not completely unfounded. It was this that motivated Ma to do something to stop eBay in its tracks. Ma’s reaction to eBay’s arrival, however, was not just to find a way to ensure their position as the leading B2B online goods provider. Before eBay could even begin to consider moving horizontally to B2B to facedown the Chinese giant, Alibaba became proactive and decided to expand into C2C, and thus Taobao was born. 2. How did Taobao beat eBay? Taobao was clearly ahead of eBay in many aspects. And while one may argue that eBay had exhibited participation in these aspects as well, they clearly did not do it as well as Taobao did. a. Familiarity with Chinese aesthetics and preference Alibaba had been founded by a Chinese man, in China, and has ben serving the Chinese market for years. It is only understandable that Taobao had a better concept of what the market wanted. When...
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...Supplementary Material for Taobao In 2002, the population of Chinese internet users was, although small compared to the US, around 59 million, representing a 4.6% penetration rate. By 2006, China already had 137 million internet users or had a 10.5 % penetration rate--about 43.1 million (31.5%) of them shopped online by the end of the year, transaction from C2C e-commerce had reached US $2.9 billion. In 2003, Alibaba.com, one of China's biggest business-to-business e-commerce firms, invested 100 million yuan (US $12 million) into the consumer-targeted e-commerce web company Taobao.com By the time Taobao entered the C2C segment, eBay’s global revenue were US$ 2,165 million and the company had about 5,700 employees. In addition to its dominant position in the U.S., eBay had established a local presence in 19 countries. Since its founding in 2003, Taobao has created an e-commerce ecosystem consisting of 80 million registered users and over 1 million sellers, as well as third-party service providers in payment, logistics. With 200 million items in selection, Taobao gives Chinese consumers the most comprehensive product choice on the Internet Taobao is the most trusted online commerce platform for Chinese consumers. 33% of China's Internet users have shopped online and 76% of these users have purchased items on Taobao. In 2002, eBay paid US$ 150 million to buy a two-thirds stake in Eachnet Inc to enter China. In 2003, eBay paid US$ 30 million for one-third of Eachnet's shares. At the...
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...Abstract In this case, it mainly defines how eBay enter the Chinese market and state problems why eBay failure problems in China compare to Tao Bao. We will introduce EBay, compare and contrast between eBay and Tao Bao, also, we talk about reasons failure in China. Introduction to EBay EBay which is a management that allows people from all over the world to buy and sell items, auctions and shopping online. EBay was founded on 4th September 1995 and by name Auction web of Pierre Omidyar in California. People can sell goods on EBay over the network. As an online auction site, eBay created a buyer but also the seller of unprecedented business model which was C2C mode. EBay has differences from traditional marketing because e Bay make a large number of small business and individuals through its sales platform to interact with small items, so creating amazing trading volume and profit. Also, its great value and market energy generated is sufficient to counterbalance the traditional business model. As a third party transaction, eBay itself does not directly involved in the transaction, but specifically for consumers with business information and value- added services. Through this e-commerce information intermediary platform, information can flow between the buyer and the seller each other. EBay collected information through selling; charged fees to users store and get huge revenue (Kathy Burns-Millyard, n.d.). Thus, eBay overthrown smaller flea market in the past, though the...
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...2016-06-13 Outline Title：What influence did Taobao bring to China? Thesis statement With the rapid development of Internet, shopping online has become an indispensable choice. Taobao is, absolutely, a true winner in China. Except for the great achievement they had made, for example, enriching the variety of commodity and offering job opportunities, Taobao has also brought a lot of problems which cannot be ignored. Para1. Taobao brings convience to people. * Variety of commodity; * Different ways of shopping; * Cheaper price. Para2. Economy growth and industry transform * Job opportunities; * Express delivery industry; * The double 11 shopping festival in China made by Taobao. Para3. Express delivery created a lot of pollution. * Excessive packaging; * A plenty of trees were cut to make cardboard boxes； * Increasing carbon dioxide. Para4. Shoddy goods and Taobao has stimulated the action of hurting intellectual property right. * Price disorder, malign competition make sellers tend to sell fake or shoddy goods. * Taobao gives pirated copies a convenient way to flood into the market. Conclusion: Taobao aims at creating the world’s preferred online retail shopping district. For the purpose of an environmentally friendly promotion of Taobao e-commerce, Taobao should change and improve their future strategies. Bibliography 2016-05-19 1. Some information about Taobao. http://www.alibabagroup.com/en/about/overview ...
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...As Amazon, Taobao is the biggest competitor in China. It has 70% market share in China. Of course, Amazon is a very successful online business but in China it is not. Quick search—Amazon Using a fast 64 500M memory Alpha servers and excellent Internet links. Amazon's site functionality is very convenient and fast. A general product description pages about 38K, can be used in an ordinary Modem Download within 13 seconds. Customers such as the Internet provides a great convenience. In addition to searching for options, customers can also browse 23 different topics, saving time online, increasing search speed. Although there is no tradition of the online bookstore presence, but the opportunities are much easier to shop around. Taobao has the largest Hadoop Distributed computing clusters, one day add data 50TB, there 40PB mass data storage. Distributed throughout the country more than 80 nodes CDN network to support traffic over 800Gbps. Taobao search engine capable of billions of product data in real-time search, in addition to their own research and development of storage systems and file caching system, and Java middleware and messaging middleware system, which all form a huge e-commerce operating system. October 2003, Taobao on the line above a feature called "secure transactions", the seller choose to support this functionality, the buyer would give the money to Taobao, etc. After he received the goods, then money Taobao to the seller. This is now Alipay. For Amazon, except...
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...淘寶教學 一個偽淘寶達人的真情分享 看過這篇文章後，應該能夠踏出淘寶第一步！ Patrick 17/10/2012 話說前頭 終於完成了這篇淘寶教學了。老實說，幫助別人是一件好事，所以當初幫人淘寶也很有樂趣。也多虧了 一班朋友，我才能成為淘寶的 VIP level 2。不過，自從我住了宿舍以後，幫人淘寶就對我做成了很多不 便。嶺南屬於偏遠地區，運費比市區貴；我星期六才會出市區，也會令到大家遲收貨。加上有時朋友們 對淘寶價格的低估和貨品的微言，都令我感到過意不去。所以一直都想寫下自己淘寶的一些心得，希望 朋友們能『自己動手，豐衣足食』 ，買得心頭好。 最後，在此聲明，這篇文章不是鼓勵大家多消費。大家不要沉迷淘寶呀。 你的朋友 Patrick 目錄 購買前：開戶篇～～～～～～～～～～～～P.2 購買前：選擇貨品篇～～～～～～～～～～P.3 購買前：充值篇～～～～～～～～～～～～P.5 購買期間～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～P.6 購物後～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～P.8 附錄：集運篇～～～～～～～～～～～～～P.9 1 購買前：開戶篇 購買前：開戶篇 到淘寶首頁，然後免費註冊 過程很簡單，如果你自問看圖識字和閱讀理解未問題的話，那應該很容易就完成了。 不過，可能很多人都會在驗證帳戶信息那裡掙扎，應不應該給淘寶那麼多個人資料？我覺得，在淘寶隔 山買牛已經是信心的挑戰，不妨在給多點信心淘寶吧！放心完成它的要求吧。 開了淘寶帳戶後，就要開支付寶帳戶了，然後將兩個帳戶連結。詳情請看 http://service.taobao.com/support/knowledge-1114373.htm?spm=0.0.80789.2.ba6248 內容十分詳細了=] 這兩個帳戶的作用是… 淘寶帳戶：選貨，下訂單 支付寶帳戶：充值，付錢 其實在淘寶的整個購買過程很安全。 選中貨品下訂單→支付寶會扣起購買費用→收貨和在淘寶確定收貨→支付寶將扣起的金錢給商家 恭喜你已經踏出成為淘寶達人的第一步！ 2 購買前：選擇貨品篇 購買前：選擇貨品篇 選擇貨品要留意...信用+銷量+評價+價錢 信用-每個商家都會有不同的信用評級。信用當然是越高越好，但是信用評級得來不易，有金冠的商家更 信用 是鳳毛麟角，十分罕見。所以只看信用就會有很多滄海遺珠未被發現。 銷量-是一個我較看重的因素。所謂羊群心理，多人買的東西即使信用評級不是很高，都會有一定的保證。 銷量 平均一人買兩本 3 評價-通常銷量高的貨品都會有較多評價，透過閱讀評價能讓你作出更正確的決定。尤其是買衣服，其他 評價 買家的評價會讓你知道貨品是偏大或是偏小。 多成交多評價 更有參考價值 價錢-選到心頭好後，終於要留意一些實際點的因素。相信你選擇淘寶都是因為價錢低，貨品品質和香港 價錢 差不多。但是有兩個原因會令到你所選的貨品不再超值。第一是運費，第二是匯率。 運費-通常國內寄國內運費不用￥10，國內到香港就要￥30 左右。如果貨品顯示的到香港運費低過 ￥30，可能商家替你給運費（包郵） ，又可能要你去買一些補運費的『商品』 ，更可能要你在收貨時 直接將運費給快遞公司（到付）（有關到付和運費的問題會在其他部分再詳談） 。 快遞是私人公司，EMS 是政府的。個人覺得快遞較好。另外， 這是 1kg 的價錢，如果買多件貨品太重就會更貴。 補運費的『商品』 ...
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...TAOBAO VS. EBAY CHINA In this essay I am going to analyze the competition about the dominant position in China's online market between the domestic player Taobao and the global Internet C2C service leader eBay. Therefore we focus on the following questions: 1.) Why did eBay succeed in the US but fail in China? What could have eBay done to avoid the defeat? 2.) Do you think Ebay should continue developing its business in China and competing against Taobao? If yes, how? If no, why? 3.) What sustainable revenue models can you suggest for the C2C business of Taobao? (1) EBay US had the big advantage of being the first mover. At the early stage of the market ebay didn’t face a market with great competition. The company was in a market and culture that they knew and also their customers were ready for the transaction service, because of the wide internet penetration and highly developed technological and financial infrastructure. Furthermore the norms and laws were well developed. If we look at the various competitions between Taboa and Ebay, Taobao took over eBay's market share gradually successfully1 based on market as on strategic reasons. The main reason according to the case study were: • Based on research of the C2C market in China, the user (seller) of the website are price sensitive. Since Taobao launched no-free model, eBay lost their customers. (2003-2007) • Low Internet penetration rate as low C2C Transaction Volume2 – for eBay it is advantageous to have high traffic...
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...Human development is the study of how people develop on physical, intellectual and social levels. It probes the different stages of life to better understand how people work. Development Studies is a dynamic area of study concerned social, political and economic change and the policy challenges they present. The major focus in Development Studies is on countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America that have remained poor relative to the industrialized parts of the world. However, many of the issues and policies facing poorer countries are global in scope and significance. Development Studies draws on a number of disciplines including geography, politics, economics, sociology and anthropology. However, among the process that concerns Development Studies include: social and economic change: impact of rapid economic growth: cultural impediments: poverty and inequality: the relationship between the developing and developed countries: the attempts by people and institutions to engage with, ignore or resists the process of transformation: including their struggles to modify or preserve their physical environment. According to Kothari (2005, 3) defined development studies is a open to varying and contesting interpretation is evident from ongoing discussions among those in relevant academic departments, institutions and associations. Also, According Berma & Junaenah (2004, 43) state that Development studies is undoubtedly pertinent and relevant as it focuses on issues and problems...
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...New Insight of Taobao affecting the Etailing in China 1. INTRODUCTION E-retailing is the concept of selling of retail product via electronic platform such as media especially internet. E-retailing is same meaning with business-to-consumer (B2C) transaction model of e-commercial even though E-retailing is an independent business pattern with particular specific components such as trust model, electronic trading process. E-retailing stores are sell online promote for products that can be sold out easily via internet method. For successful example as Taobao. The online retailing platform provided a wide variety and to make the buyer convenience to buy the product. E-retailing means of retailing through and over the internet. Hence, an E-retailing are B2C (Business to customer) and C2C (Customer to customer) business patterns that to enforce a transaction business and customer or consumer. E-retailers’ business can be provided businesses like E-bay only or develop from traditional business such as Testco.com. Taobao is more popular e-retailing platform since the Internet has become an indispensable part in people's lives. Taobao-Rapid and successful development of a few short years, the success of popular products categories such as men’s and women’s fashion and bags. It search function is easy to search their desire product as well as find relevant buyers through the search engine. In customer service, it has Taobao “call center” which is effective measure...
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